Apple has picked up AlgoTrim, a Swedish upstart that knocks together tools for quickly decompressing apps, photos, videos and other stuff on mobile phones.
As well as image squeezing, AlgoTrim touts a code compression library that crams software into the flash memory of ARM-powered devices, possibly reducing the size of …

Apple bought PA, a minor ARM licensee with some interesting ideas, and produced the A4 series of chips. That's some magic. All big companies have a history of acquiring smaller companies with interesting tech, the magic comes from integrating their tech with your own and producing something better.